Wordsworth The Three Musketeers Дюма Александр

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D'Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu's machinations. And when the young hero falls in love with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance, he finds himself in a world of murder, conspiracy and lies, with only the Musketeers to depend on. A stirring nineteenth-century tale of friendship and adventure, The Three Musketeers continues to be one of the most influential and popular pieces of French literature • Richard Pevear's introduction investigates the controversy of Dumas' literary collaborators, and how important serialisation was to the book's success

"Три мушкетера" • Александра Дюма - одно из самых любимых приключений всех времен • Когда юный Д`Артаньян приезжает в Париж в поисках счастья, его вызывают на дуэль не с одним, а с тремя королевскими мушкетерами. Но Атос, Портос и Арамис становятся его верными друзьями, поскольку он пытается доказать, что достоин стать четвертым мушкетером • Книга на английском языке • One of the best-loved adventures of all time • When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis become his trusted friends as he tries to prove himself worthy of becoming a fourth Musketeer

Блистательный роман Александра Дюма «Двадцать лет спустя» о чести и гордости, об отваге и любви, о верных клинках и верных сердцах написан вслед за романом «Три мушкетера» и является его прямым продолжением. В нем столько же остроумия, занимательности и неожиданных поворотов, как и в первой книге. Приключения отважных мушкетеров — д’Артаньяна, Атоса, Портоса и Арамиса — продолжаются среди грозных исторических событий, разбросавших преданных друзей по разные стороны баррикад • Книга на английском языке • This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury • A year after the publication of "The Three Musketeers", Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In "Twenty Years After" the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil

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Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip negra • When his godfather is murdered, Cornelius finds himself caught up in the deadly politics of the time, imprisoned and facing a death sentence. His jailor's daughter Rosa, holds both the key to his survival and his chance to produce the ultimate tulip

One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis.Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background.But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion

"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and children of the working classes, and through its emblematic characters, argues for a socialist politics as the only hope for a civilized and humane life for all. This Wordsworth edition includes an exclusive foreword by the late Tony Benn

Дюма — это Дюма, и добавить тут нечего. Его исторические работы, одну из которых, посвященную Цезарю, мы не так давно представляли в "Венценосцах", не уступают по мастерству его романам. Дюма просто не мог не описать эпоху последних Бурбонов — материал и канву его знаменитых романов. И хотя именно время правления Людовика XV странным образом не стало фоном для сочинений знаменитого французского писателя, но тем интереснее читать описание быта, нравов и событий, вышедшее из-под его пера. Писатель ярко, увлекательно и с присущим ему изяществом описывает события, происходившие во Франции и за рубежом со времени рождения Людовика и до его смерти. Любитель женщин и охоты, сибарит и жуир, Людовик XV считался королем лишь формально – государственной политикой он не занимался, отдав реальную власть в руки своих фавориток

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle • This edition includes The Second Jungle Book which contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man

"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814